[media id=6900] Will Blackwater be brought to justice? Five Blackwater guards have been told to surrender to the FBI by Monday to face federal mansl
December 6, 2008

Will Blackwater be brought to justice?

Five Blackwater guards have been told to surrender to the FBI by Monday to face federal manslaughter and assault charges connected to the shooting deaths of 17 civilians at an traffic circle in Iraq last year, ABC News has learned.

Law enforcement officials say the grand jury hearing the case was in session Thursday in Washington, D.C. and was expected to have voted on the indictments.

The federal investigation revealed that two of the Blackwater guards did most of the shooting and are expected to face either murder or manslaughter charges, law enforcement officials said...read on

You may remember that this story broke...

...just days after the Blackwater CEO and founder Erik Prince's testimony under oath that his personnel " have never intentionally killed civilians ," we now learn that US military reports confirm the Iraqi Govt's account of Blackwater's mercenaries' unprovoked opening fire on unarmed Iraqis...read on

And I wonder how Obama will handle them...

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